About Us
We believe that each Leadership Team has the ability to inspire the organization to remarkable results.
We are the trusted advisor to many general managers, sales & marketing directors and team leaders of the world’s leading multinationals. We work with Leadership Teams to help them implement a shared and focused strategy, whilst building a high-impact team that produces results time and time again. The most important reason why Leadership Teams want to work with us is that we are a living example of what they want to achieve. We enjoy what we do. We make things happen. Or, as one client stated about Joost: “he is Mr Results”.
We are a European based management consulting firm with a global reach. We work with a team of highly qualified experts with complementary skills. With this team we frequently have contact, discuss specific issues and share tips and techniques, which enables us to constantly sharpen our approach and put the latest learnings into practice.
We have worked with over a thousand managers in teams from companies like Unilever, Heineken, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Royal Dutch Telecom, E-Plus, Reckitt Benckiser, Vodafone and Sara Lee in Europe, the USA, South Africa, Russia and South America.
Why working with us?
All companies we work with have established top-class training and development programs for their individual employees, however when it comes to impacting the performance of a team, it becomes more of a challenge. We enter the scene at the moment a team is not 100% “working” and therefore has a challenge in achieving the results they are after.
Management Teams, Category Teams and Multifunctional Project Teams often act as a group of individual division heads, rather than one team working together within a compelling and focused context. And when there is no real alignment on what’s important, teams get distracted by the daily business and shift from pro-active business leaders to re-active firefighters.
About our philosophy on teams and the results they are after
A team comprises a group of people linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks.
A group in itself does not necessarily constitute a team. Teams normally have members with complementary skills and generate synergy through a coordinated effort which allows each member to maximize his or her strengths and minimize his or her weaknesses. Team members need to learn how to help one another, help other team members realize their true potential, and create an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations.
So far the theory. Because teams are build-up of people, the practice often differs from the theory. And here the “fun” begins.
To build high-impact teams that produce results time and time again, you need to systematically shift mind-set and action. Team building is not a single “pep talk” during an off-site meeting, but an on-going process that takes place over a longer period of time.
We offer models, concepts and ideas that help teams to get to their full potential. We believe in constructive dialogues where the whole team contributes to explore limiting belief structures, create a mind-set focused on success and identify what needs to be done to have success. A structured follow-up is always part of any program we offer, in order to successfully change the learning into a habit.
I had the opportunity to participate to trainings led by Joost and I can only say that I really enjoyed each single minute. The trainings were not only well organized (especially his own training location in Spain was amazing!) but more importantly he managed to create a great spirit from the start by being constructive, open, dynamic, and sharing his own business experience from which the whole group could benefit. The outcome of the session was of very high quality each time. Thanks again for your great support!
